Re: Documentation/initrd.txt update

[H. Peter Anvin]

Guilherme Destefani wrote:
> The cpio initrd isn't documented in
> linux-2.6.17/Documentation/initrd.txt.
> (but it is in
> linux-2.6.17/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt)
> initrd.txt shouldn't be updated?
>
> Two possible updates follow, use patch -p1 inside the kernel tree.

... and both are wrong.

initramfs != initrd, plus you specified -c to cpio, which is wrong (-H 
newc is correct).

You have to account for the differences between initramfs and initrd, 
e.g. no pivot_root in initramfs.

	-hpa
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